On this day in 1856, the world got Nikola Tesla.
He gave us AC power and proved wireless transmission decades before anyone believed him.
The limit in front of you is just the thing no one’s proven wrong yet.
Happy 170th, Tesla. We’re still building on what you started 💡.
Her work on spread spectrum concepts contributed to the foundations of modern secure wireless communication. She was recognized by the Electronic Frontier Foundation in 1997, three years before her death.
Patent pending means something when you build it yourself.
In 1942, Hedy Lamarr received US Patent 2,292,387 for a frequency-hopping communication system designed to prevent the jamming of radio-guided torpedoes. Her patent expired before the military ever used the technology. She was never paid…
Nothing is "meant to be thrown away." Not the MTV News archive. Not Gawker. Not the penny press of the 1800s. 🕳️
Maria Bustillos argues that keeping the receipts is about more than nostalgia. It's about the raw material of history.
📚 Read Maria’s essay & more in VANISHING CULTURE from the #InternetArchive
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#VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #OpenAccess #Preservation
News shouldn’t disappear. 🕳️
Some publishers are blocking the Wayback Machine, putting the public record at risk. Journalists are speaking out.
Add your name. Stand for preserving the news.
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